The medical experts helping guide Australia's coronavirus response are asked to reconsider whether people working in residential aged care should be required to get a COVID-19 vaccination to continue working in the facilities.

As we hit day four of lockdown and cases continue to grow, Victorians are starting to wonder if the current restrictions will indeed end at 11:59pm on Thursday.

Mercy College at Coburg in Melbourne's north has sent out a letter to its school community after a student tested positive to coronavirus. Follow live.

The ABC says that former attorney-general Christian Porter has decided to discontinue his defamation action against the broadcaster and reporter Louise Milligan.

Acting Premier James Merlino has warned Victoria's COVID crisis "may well get worse before it gets better" as health authorities revealed almost a dozen new cases of the virus.

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison suggests China is trying to drive a wedge between Australia and New Zealand during annual talks with his counterpart Jacinda Ardern in Queenstown.

China announces that each couple will be permitted to have up to three children, a major policy shift from the existing limit of two, after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world's most populous country.

As tennis authorities threaten to ban Naomi Osaka over her refusal to do interviews at the French Open, it's clear people are criticising without taking into account the Japanese star's unique pressures in a home Olympic year, writes Tracey...

Billionaire James Packer and then-NSW premier Barry O'Farrell failed to reveal a private lunch at influential broadcaster Alan Jones's apartment as they became central players in the high-stakes battle to build Crown Sydney.

Health authorities add two shops at Footscray Market to the growing list of high-risk COVID exposure sites, as the state battles a coronavirus outbreak.

The world's largest meat processing company, JBS Foods, falls victim to cyber attacks that shut down production around the world, including in Australia. 

"Rugby league-mad" North Queensland lands a major coup, benefitting from the NRL's decision to switch venues from the MCG for game 1 due to Victoria's COVID outbreak.

Garma Festival, Australia's premier forum for Indigenous affairs discussion, is cancelled after the NT's Chief Health Officer deems the north-east Arnhem Land event too risky.

Coronavirus testing surged across SA last week following Melbourne's lockdown being announced, but has significantly dropped off since then, prompting a warning from Nicola Spurrier about the possibility of coronavirus circulating undetected...

The lawyer for Stephanie Scott's family is calling for more stringent screening of school staff, after the family settle a civil case over her abduction and killing in 2015 by a cleaner who worked at her school.

Victoria's coronavirus outbreak and repeated breaches of hotel quarantine spur a new testing requirement in the Northern Territory, with some arrivals directed to get tested even after they complete quarantine interstate.

Emotions spill over as Australian cricketers are released from mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine in Sydney after escaping India's deadly third wave. 

Lawyers for the Capitol Hill insurrectionists plan to argue those charged over the January 6 riots were misled by online conspiracy theories, with one insisting his client "believed what he heard on Fox News".

A man who delivered a fatal blow to another man outside a bar in Cairns in Far North Queensland tells a court he was defending his friend.

Authorities continue their search for a missing surf skier in Moreton Bay, after survivor and friend Jack McDonald tells police the pair battled for hours in treacherous waters. 

Most of us believe there's a lot of racism these days. But with around three in four Australians with non-European ancestry reporting discrimination, experts say recognition is just the beginning.

When Melissa Stannard holds her rusty metal calliper to her face, she thinks of her elderly grandmother sitting frightened, being measured "like an animal". It is a discovery she has only recently made.

The seat at the head of NSW Labor has been left vacant after Jodi McKay delivered a teary resignation in the wake of a disastrous by-election result. Here's who could replace her.

Five people including an 11-year-old girl have been plucked from the ocean at Jurien Bay in Western Australia, hours after their yacht struck a reef and disintegrated.

Australia Talks asked about people's experiences of discrimination across all facets of Australian life. Annabel Crabb takes us through what the data shows us.